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Curriculum Vitae
Birth July 14, 1982 in Witten (North-Rhine Westphalia)
Primary School Brenschenschule (Witten-Bommern) 1988-1992
Secondary School Ruhr-Gymnasium Witten 1992-2001
Abitur
(German A-Levels)
Subjects: Maths and English
Studies Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2001-2002
Courses: General Linguistics/English Studies

Saarland University 2002-2007
Courses: Computational Linguistics (Major)
Phonetics (Minor)

Saarland University 2007-?
PhD Student in the International Post-Graduate College for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems at Spoken Language Systems

Pre-Diploma
(German B.Sc)
October 2004
Diploma
(German M.Sc)
March 2007
Thesis Topic: Event-Based Question Answering
Supervisor: Jochen L. Leidner
Study Abroad Winterterm 2005:
University of Edinburgh
(Erasmus Exchange Programme)
Employment 2003-2005:
Student Research Assistant at SALSA-Project

2006-2007:
Student Research Assistant at CORTE-Project

Internship January-February 2006:
Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (University of Edinburgh)
Task: Unsupervised Lexicon Induction
Supervisor: Prof. Mark Steedman